Gould, R. A. Gould

Living Archaeology

Herausgeber: Renfrew, Colin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using as case studies his own observations of Australian Aborigines, and those of others, the author presents a unified theory of ethnoarchaeology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780521299596
• ISBN-10: 0521299594
• Artikelnr.: 26151952

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: archaeology and the totality of human behavior
1. Tikatika
2. Beyond analogy
3. Behavior and adaptation
4. Other adaptive models in Aboriginal Australia
5. The anthropology of human residues
6. The materialist approach in living archaeology
7. The importance of being different
8. Explaining the differences
9. Antipodean anomalies
10. Surprise package
Notes
Bibliography
Index.